[Af_List] Rafael Toral?

[stephen]

> Rafael Toral is playing on these dates
> 
> 28 June - Dunedin		
> 29 June - Christchurch	
> 30 June - Wellington	
> 2  July - Auckland

Oh, goodie.  He's great!

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2408  (excerpt)

So does it sound good? Does it what. Want a synthesizer that plays like
robot-Evan Parker on speed? Check. Want the sound of a bunch of cheap
op-amps twittering to each other? Check. Want to hear the sound of a
massacre at the Rubber Duckie (TM) plant? Check. Want to hear the sub-atomic
conversation between a bunch of clouds in an electrical storm? Check. Want
to hear analogue spring reverbs making love in a prolonged MDMA-orgy? Check.
Want to shake your head again and again at the sheer playfulness and
inventiveness of it all? Check. It's like he's spent a whole bunch of time
building a machine which runs on a twenty-five yr-old 8-bit microprocessor
and which he's programmed to play all the "Early Electronic Music's Greatest
Hits" as well as Olivier Messaien's bird-music through a couple of speakers
he ripped out of an old transistor radio. And now, bored with its
repertoire, he's teasing and irritating the thing with a pink noise
generator and a hairdryer with a torch shining through it. Uh.. that is to
say, timeless, and at the same time totally up to the minute. Amazing. 

Me <<< excited

[stephen clover::::www.dorkinglabs.com/seht.php]

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